Every childhood dream meets an obstacle, and for Jonathan Spano, it arrived in the form of an eye chart. Fascinated by aircraft since boyhood, he wanted to fly for the Navy, only to discover that his eyesight would never qualify him. Rather than abandon aviation, he built a business that paid for it. That business, a traffic control company started with his brother as teenagers, spans dozens of locations and, by his account, earns more than one million dollars daily. Here is how a pilot hopeful turned ambition into a camera jet, a film credit, and a lesson in persistence.
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